Archive By Author - Dennis Wyatt
Get ready for 40 mph speed limit on Cottage
The speed limit on Cottage Avenue is going to go up by a third. That's because state law requires cities to set the actual posted speed within 5 mph of how fast 85 percent of the vehicles travel on roads they use radar for the enforcement of speed. The speed limit is currently 30 mph. The posted speed will need to be changed to 40 mph according to city staff based on a citywide speed ...
Jack Miller joins Hall of Fame
Jack Miller - a coach and teacher lauded for his "pay-it-forward attitude" - is being inducted into the Manteca Hall of Fame.
Tax Internet sales until virtual cops can protect us
The Internet. To those who make a living hawking everything from toilet paper to second-hand upper end purses by the mere stroke of a key, it is sacred grounds for American capitalism. In their eyes it succeeds because it is a vibrant home of low regulation and low taxes. True, but that is the same reason why the black market and bartering are so profitable. Even legitimate marijuana growers in Colorado will discover the high ...
Where does Ripon council stand?
Ripon's elected leaders may vote to take a stand for the third time since 2008 on South San Joaquin Irrigation District's effort to lower power rates in the community by 15 percent.
$2.6M upgrade for Austin/99
Moffat Boulevard between Austin Road and Woodward Avenue will be widened to four lanes under a $2.6 million plan to secure employment centers in the first phase of the 1,050-acre Austin Road Business Park. Ramps at the Austin Road and Highway 99 interchange would be widened including allowing the southbound off ramp to 99 to have two left turn lanes and a right turn lane. There would also be traffic signals at the off ramps. ...
Taxes you pay go to PG&E & not Headstart
Pundits - and editorial cartoonists - are having a field day over Congress' decision to restore funding for air traffic controllers while letting programs such as Headstart for low-income kids and Meals on Wheels for shut-in senior citizens take federal budget hits.
Bill & Lucille Harris gain Hall of Fame nod
Bill and Lucille Harris - champions in the tort reform movement, astute business people, and supporters of education - are being inducted into the Manteca Hall of Fame. Other members of the Class of 2013 are Jack Miller, athletics; Mike Henry, education; George Abdullah, Government; Greg Leland, education; Karl Konrad Wolf, health care; Randy Ernest Albertsen, athletics; and David Bricker, community service. Bill (who has passed away) and Lucille Harris were nominated for induction in ...
Drought helps net SSJID $4M so far in water sales
South San Joaquin Irrigation District has what much of California wants - water. Many urban water agencies and rural irrigation districts in the Golden State are clamoring for more water on the heels of this week's announcement that the Sierra snowpack is only at 17 percent of normal levels. The Sierra snowpack is essentially the state's largest water reservoir covering almost 40 percent of California's needs. "The phone has been ringing off the hook," noted ...
ACE seeking to extend service to Modesto
Downtown Manteca's transit station is on target for completion in June. Now all the station needs is Altamont Commuter Express passenger train service. And the earliest that could happen is 2018. "It (2018) is a pretty aggressive target," noted Stacey Mortensen, executive director for the San Joaquin Rail Commission. Mortensen said establishment of a target date was key to get those involved with the effort focused on the goal. She added Stanislaus County securing their ...
Cinco de Mayo is as American as you can get
People need to stop having heart palpations over Cinco de Mayo celebrations. It is as an American observance as St. Patrick's Day. There is no "pure American" gene, so to speak, or ethnicity. Yes, the native Indians were here first but rest assured they didn't consider themselves to be residents of the United States of America when Europeans landed - including the Spanish - nor when the revolution allowed the split from the throne. That ...
Developer offers city $1.8M
Bonus bucks may start flowing again. Atherton Homes is volunteering to pay $1,068,000 to bolster Manteca police and fire staffing plus contribute $712,000 for the municipal general fund for one-time expenditures as part of a development agreement they are proposing to allow them to build 356 single family homes over the next five years in Southeast Manteca. Bonus bucks is the shorthand name given to the money paid per proposed home to assure sewer allocation ...
Guns: Being judged by 12 instead of being carried by 6
She's a single mom in her early 30s. She lives in an old farmhouse in an almond orchard five miles east of Manteca. The closest neighbor is a quarter mile of a way but the trees make it impossible to see their home.
There are now 71,164 Mantecans
Manteca has bumped Turlock to become the fifth largest city in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
Extended camping illegal in parking lots in Manteca
Extended camping – more than one night – in the Wal-Mart parking lot doesn't thrill some Manteca civic leaders.
Ripon grows by 129 residents to 14,606 population
Ripon added 129 residents during 2012 to make it the third fastest growing city in San Joaquin County.
Articles By Author - Dennis Wyatt
7 years after the peak
Property tax receipts are rebounding for the second straight year in Manteca.
Manteca may end squeeze play at Lathrop Road intersection
The attempt at a squeeze play may end soon on westbound Lathrop Road at Madison Grove Drive.
Manteca ponders keeping lobbyist for $80,600 a year
By DENNIS WYATT
‘Cool’ car colors, gas powered lawn mowers & air quality
Do you drive a black car?
Unpaid water bills drop 58% from 2010 peak
Manteca is being left less high and dry these days when it comes to unpaid municipal water bills.
Watch out, I’ve got an excuse to use chainsaw
I was upset two weeks ago when I went into the back yard and discovered a California pepper tree that had mushroomed to 30 feet in height in just five years had snapped.
Single-family homes are in a number of cases no longer that
Think American Dream and images of owning a single-family home pop up.
Panhandling ban in city parks?
Manteca is exploring whether the city can outright ban solicitation of all types in Manteca's 54 municipal parks.
River Islands’ epic 24-year journey to build the first home
The folks who run the 157-year-old 5omerset Holdings have the patience of Job.
Generations Center radiates cool
LATHROP - What's the "coolest" building in Lathrop?
A tribute to the fallen at the new transit station & expanding library
Why are we free?
T-n-T powers Manteca growth
There was a time when Manteca's leaders dreamed of landing employers in the same genre of PeopleSoft, AT&T and LSI Logic to power the city's economic engine.
Coming up next: Pre-Crime Police using wholesale mining of data
So you have no problem with government data mining.
1,619 more Manteca homes?
Get ready for a new McMansion Era in Manteca.
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